For 30 years after the introduction of broncho-graphy by Sicard and Forestier (1922) iodized oil remained the only contrast medium in general use. During this period a large amount of information was published about the radiographic appearance of the bronchi in most varieties of chronic pulmonary disease. The literature dealing with bronchography in pulmonary tuberculosis is scanty by compariso...

Amplitude Polynomial Phase Signals Joseph M. Francos and Benjamin Friedlander Abstract Phase information has fundamental importance in many two-dimensional signal processing problems. In this paper we consider two-dimensional signals with random amplitude and a continuous deterministic phase. The signal is represented by a random amplitude polynomial-phase model. A computationally e cient estim...

We consider classes of simply connected planar domains which are isophasal, ie, have the same scattering phase s(λ) for all λ > 0. This is a scattering-theoretic analogue of isospectral domains. Using the heat invariants and the determinant of the Laplacian, Osgood, Phillips and Sarnak showed that each isospectral class is sequentially compact in a natural C∞ topology. This followed earlier wor...

Compressed-gas-driven shock tubes have become popular as a laboratory-scale replacement for field blast tests. The well-known initial structure of the Riemann problem eventually evolves into a shock structure thought to resemble a Friedlander wave, although this remains to be demonstrated theoretically. In this paper, we develop a semi-analytical model to predict the key characteristics of pseu...

We associate determinant lines to objects of the extended abelian category built out of a von Neumann category with a trace. Using this we suggest constructions of the combinatorial and the analytic L torsions which, unlike the work of the previous authors, requires no additional assumptions; in particular we do not impose the determinant class condition. The resulting torsions are elements of ...

We consider exponential sums with x-coordinates of points qG and q−1G where G is a point of order T on an elliptic curve modulo a prime p and q runs through all primes up to N (with gcd(q, T )= 1 in the case of the points q−1G). We obtain a new bound on exponential sums with q−1G and correct an imprecision in the work of W. D. Banks, J. B. Friedlander, M. Z. Garaev and I. E. Shparlinski on expo...